Re: OSD && DFSG - different purposes
- To: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
- Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: OSD && DFSG - different purposes
- From: tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
- Date: 02 Mar 2003 11:50:20 -0800
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Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> writes:
> The problem with relying on human judgement is that it can be
> arbitrary. If Microsoft came to Debian and said "Would you accept
> this software licensed under the Microsoft Public License?" would you
> be able to make a judgement which is not only not arbitrary, but which
> could be *seen* to be non-arbitrary? If you want to make judgements
> on things which aren't in the DFSG, how can you not be seen as
> arbitrary?
We don't care whether we are arbitrary or not. Unlike OSI, we get to
be arbitrary.
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